NUCLEAIRES !Bases de données TCHERNOBYL
Dossier "Le paradis ou non pour les animaux?"
Growing Up with Chernobyl
ADIT, source http://www.americanscientist.org/
NUCLEAIRES !| Abstract:
Although it has been two decades since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the biological effects of the radiation released are still being debated. The authors share lessons learned about radiation effects--and about doing science under the hot lights of international environmental politics--over the 15 years that they have been studying how this radiation has affected the wildlife inhabiting the evacuated zone directly around the power plant. |
At one point they concluded
that certain rodents suffered significant genetic rearrangements, but more
recent assessments suggest that these animals have not experienced mutations
that can be attributed to the nuclear accident. The removal of people has
allowed the zone around the reactor to become something of an unintended
wildlife preserve.
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